Until recently I lived in Cotopaxi Province only about a kilometer from the Pan America Highway but about 15 minutes from the larger city of latagunga. Elevation was about 3,000 m and generally the daytime was relatively warm with strong sunshine and temperatures of 22 to 25 Celsius although the evening was cool, often going down as low as three or four Celsius depending on the time of year. As a result this is an area with almost no nasty insects, not liking the cold at night. It is an area that is relatively dry but where I lived people did one of two things; they either had their own well and then did irrigation or they belong to a group irrigation organization which is what I did. For an initial fee of $1,000 to join the group I then got two times a week service for 5 hours using sprinklers which came on automatically organized by the group. For me the cost was $12 a month but depending on the size of your property it could be more.
This particular area grows a lot of alfalfa and one neighbour is extremely good getting something like seven crops a year. Broccoli as a large-scale commercial crop is also grown outside and turned over several times a year . In my case I grew outdoor vegetables of many kinds but for warmer types like tomatoes and peppers I had a small Greenhouse. Plus I had a plantation of lavender for essential oil and also bees. Lots of people in the area maintain some dairy cattle, some sheep, alpacas or llamas, chickens, ducks, geese, cuyes, rabbits. There were also quite a few large scale flower greenhouses and also commercial enterprises for production of eggs.
Production was possible year round although there are a couple of times we might have a touch of Frost but nothing like North America as this only just burns a few leaves. Does not kill the plants. Much depends on what it is you're trying to do. For example being self-sufficient is close to possible, but to make serious money you need either a very high value product like the greenhouses produce or something unique. In my area there was also a very special horse operation raising Spanish horses and these are expensive.